The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-11-17
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THE MAN ABOUT T WM,
The Catholic Church is being remod.
cled and beautiied. Among other i'm.
provements the walls and ceiling are be
ing beautifully frescoed. The contract
has been let to Cincinnati parties.
Evangelical services at the Presbyts.
rian Church continue with unabated in.
terest. Rev. Bach,nan.s plain, pointed
sermons draw large congregations, and
the people both in and out of the church
seen to manifest considerable interest
in the meetings.
The bird law is now out, and the sound
of the hunter is heard in the land. Hills
boro sportsmeh have told some pretty
big stories about their luck, but uf course
it all goes. The death rate with 'jlm
dry" and the festive quail 10 said TO be
frightful. Bob Duffey was one Of the
tirst to open the campaign, and reports
fair success.
"How's the hotel business, Mr. Hawk"
Been a fairly good year, but the hotel
business is slightly overdone in Hills.
boro. However, We have been doing
our share OF the work, aud have no rea.
son to complain. Do you know that
there is not one man in hundred that
can run hotel successfully 1t takes q
queer combination in fellow to make q
good hotel man. You have to under.
stand your patrons and adapt yourself
to the situation. You must size man
up and treat him acc ,rdinYly. You must
be good student of human nature, and
study every guest separately. There is
also good deal Of knack in running the
culinary department You are compell.
I'D to use your bump OF invention a good
deal to please all the pslates you are
called upon to tickle. Yes, it's a sepa.
rate and peculiar business, and must be
studied like anything else"
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Said prominent man the other day
in speaking OF the rent of Hillsboro
property: Business property here pays
a good per cent. on the investment I
know of a number OF business buildings
that are paying from 10 to Is per cent.
on the money invested. Rnts for busi.
ness roo.ns and Offices are higher here
than in many places of thirty or forty
thousand Inhabitants. For instance q
certain store room in town rents for
something over six hundred dollars q
year. Several years ago an individual
wanted it, but thinking the rent too
high, went to Springfield, and within a
block of the center of the city rented a
like room, with the addition of q cellar
and the privilege OF using part of the
second floor, for four hundred dollars
per annum. Yes, business property
rents we'll, but private dwellings, do not
pay. can buy cottage property in town
and count six per cent. on my invest
ment, taxes, repairs. insurance, etc., and
the expenses and interest on my invest.
ment will amount to more than the
property will rent for. 1t is cheaper to
rent dwelling property in Hillsboro than
it is to own it,"
What's the prospect for wheat crop
the coming season p queried the NJ. A.
I. of prominen, farmer. mot fatter-
ing. think thu coming wheat crop will
be light. The late dry fall has greatly
injured the wheat. The fly has also in.
jured the crop great deal. This and
the drouth will, in my opinion, make
the crop considerably below the aver.
erage."
"Then the wheat merchants who have
been buying at from 65 to 70 cents have
pretty sure thing Of it. have they not?"
Eyes. l think they will make fifteen
or twenty cents clear on every bushel
bought"
"Has the past season been prosper
GUS one for the farmer p
mo, the farmers are going to be hard
up before spring in many localities.
Money is scarce and crops were not good,
aud it's going to be close winter ON
some of them. However, pork is COM
manding fair price. and those who
have raised corn enough to fatten their
pork will be less embarrassed"
"How did the election suit you?
"In the main, very we'll. don't take
much stock in politics, but always feel
q little better when the G. O. P. is
ahead. want to live to see Foraker at
the head Of our government, and then l
think l will be- satisfied, and I have
great hopes of helping to put him there"
"Been down to see the Booth and Bar
rett combination
eyes," said the barrister addressed,
"wss down last week."
II notice the press isn't raving over
the combination as enthusias,icall as /
supposed it would. Isn't it an entire
succ-ss?"
swell, yes, it's success In one sense,
hut the people seem to expect too much.